It was always a bit of a hack to use static methods on the
qbehaviour_whatever classes to return metadata about the behaviour. It
is better design to have real qbehaviour_whatever_type classes to report
that metadata, particularly now that we are planning to add more such.
For example, inheritance works better with real classes. See, for
example, the improvements in
question_engine::get_behaviour_unused_display_options().
This change has been implemented in a backwards-compatbile way. Old
behaviours will continue to work. There will just be some developer debug
output to prompt people to upgrade their code properly.
At the moment, when attempt is built on the last one, "not yet answered"
message is shown, which confuses many people. This patch modifies the state to
"complete" for attempt based on previous and modifies the output string.
Many thanks to Tim Hunt for guiding me through quiz infrastructure and some code
suggestions.
Comment format (FORMAT_...) was correctly being processed when the
manual grading happened as the result of a form submission. It was only
when done using the question_usage or question_attempt API method that
there was no way to specify the format. (Although I think the only place
this API as used was in the unit tests.)
Note that question_attempt::manual_grade API had to change, but I don't
think that is a real API change. Calling code should be using
question_usage::question_attempt, which is backwards compatible.
Note that now, if you don't pass format, then no error is generated, but
a developer debugging message is generated.
1/ type/match/tests/walkthrough_test.php - tests are failing randomly, looks like some weird randomisation is going on there - see TODOs
2/ type/multianswer/tests/upgradelibnewqe_test.php contains invalid expected value - see TODO
1. database upgrade to merge instructions into the questiontext field,
and remove the UNITDISPLAY option.
2. Changes to the validation in deferred feedback mode, so students
are warned about incomplete answers.
3. Using this to wark students if they enter an answer that is not
recognised as a number.
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)